AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS' PICTURES

Tf).M MIX AND TONY—FRIDAY

A running gun buttle. Mullets whizzing hy mill ripping through the sagebrush of the Colorado desert. A beautiful girl in the saddle with him. This is the situation confronted by Tom Mixin the opening .sequences of “ The Cleat K and A Train Robbery,” Fox Films super thriller which opens a oneday engagement at Lite Princess Theatre next Friday. Tom Mix Is right in his element in this drama, which is based on the great story bv Paul Leicester Ford. Tom gets iii his masterly work with the lasso, his guns and Tony, the wonder horse, during the course of his portrayal of Tom Gordon, detective, who has been assigned to nip the progress of railroad bandits. Experts who have previewed the film declare it to be the finest thing that Mix has ever done. “it has as much action as a cyclone,” one reviewer remarked. The conclusion of the photodrarna is as startling as the opening. Gordon has almost foiled the bandits in the act of looting the train when he is knocked out and the railway officials mistake him for a robber. The girl whom lie saved from tile desperadoes in the early scenes turns out to be the daughter of the railway president. The girl (Dorothy Dwan) sets about to convince her father that Tom is really a detective and not a bandit. The real brains of the rob' gang turns out to be Burton Holt, the division superintendent. Ho sees that he faces exposure and fires on Gordon but the bullet fails to find its mark. Holt mounts horse and dashes away with Gordon in pursuit. The detective tracks him to the outlaws’ lair, where he outwits him and routs them and recovers the stolen treasure. The cast includes William Walling, Harry Gripp, Edward Peil. Sr.. Carl .Miller and Curtis McHenry. John Stone wrote the screen play. A good supporting series will also be presented, including a topical, comedy and further chapters of the new serial “ The Winking Idol.”